Upland Bird Hunting

TWENTY-SIXTEEN WAS A BIG YEAR. New clients were booked, revenue milestones were reached, shutter clicks were off the scale, and the official year-end tally of My Butt In An Airline Seat surpassed 15,000 miles. In this video, you’ll find a smattering of my 2016 work from The Olympic Range to the Seychelles. Much appreciation to YETI and Frontiers International Travel, […]

I LOVE THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. Some folks who live there despise it, and I get that. What’s to like about a flat place that smells like cow pies, where blowing dust can find your toothbrush, and where snow can drift as high as your barn…that is, if your barn survived that twister which spun your house off […]

WHEN ONE LIVES IN TEXAS, one might think that Idaho would be cooler in August. Right? The mountains, the desert, downtown Boise: anywhere in Idaho would be cooler than Austin, surely…right? I was really looking forward to my Idaho assignment a few weeks ago when Austin was pegging 100, every day; but a funny thing […]

AS I’VE WRITTEN HERE previously, there is a positive relationship between rainfall and quail hunting in Texas. Yes, there are habitat issues that can be blamed for their extinction in many areas east of IH-35; but on the quail factory ranches of west and south Texas, lack of birds in certain years just ain’t that […]

2015 was a fantastic year of great shooting locations and new client relationships. My 2016 calendar is stacking up nicely and I’m looking forward to new photo-ops and challenges in the months ahead. Thank you all for your business and encouragement!

SINCE TEXAS IS TYPICALLY ASS-BROILING hot from Memorial Day through Thanksgiving, the concept of fall is essentially lost upon us Lone Star folk. We don’t have changing leaves or a pumpkin harvest in September, so we have to rely on things like Walmart store decorations, ESPN, and the sudden appearance of school buses to tell us […]

THERE’S AN OLD ADAGE among upland bird hunters that goes something like this: When it rains in Texas, it rains quail… Profound, is it not? While big chunks of the state are still in a drought, by definition, there are a few pockets of Texas scrubland that received timely rainfall for quail nesting, and those counties […]

Happy New Year and a huge thanks to my clients, models and location hosts for another great year of photography. 2014 was my most prosperous year, to date, and I look forward to new challenges and destinations in the year ahead.

LAST FALL I DID an assignment shoot for Outdoor Life magazine where they asked me to pick out a place that dove hunters frequent and capture the experience of opening day. I chose Hondo, Texas. That published spread has just come out in the magazine, so I now have the green light to share a few images from that shoot. […]

I love photographing dogs. They’re sometimes moody just like people, but they typically don’t expect much and they’re always eager to please. A few weeks back I spent an afternoon with outfitter Foard Houston at Sandy Oaks Ranch in Devine. Foard had some quail that needed flushing and some dogs that needed working. That’s always […]

2013 In Review | Tosh Brown Photography from Tosh Brown Photography on Vimeo. Happy New Year, photo buyers and friends! 2013 was a great year and I appreciate your interest in my work. My 2014 calendar is filling in nicely with new destinations, clients, and challenges. I’m looking forward to the road ahead.

Those are wild bobwhite quail, aka Nature’s Nachos. I shot this image two weeks ago in the southwest corner of Texas on a ranch that was char-broiled by the recent drought of record. From 2009 through this past June (when it rained a foot in six hours) this particular ranch received less than 10% of […]

Fly Fishing in Salt Waters roosterfish feature 2012 was a great year filled with lots of photo-ops. As I tally up the columns I’m also happy to find another decent up-tick in sales. That’s three years running so maybe I’m some sort of lagging indicator of a stronger economy. Thanks to all of you who license my […]

This is where it starts. This day marks the abrupt shift between summer and fall. Not so much with the weather because it’ll be hot as a kiln for at least another month. But this is when the dogs get jicky and you’ve got a new license and there’s football on TV and it’s okay […]

Recently I’ve been booking a few private assignment shoots for folks that want a unique and lasting record of a special gathering of friends, clients, or family. I’m offering that program again this fall and here’s how it typically works: You schedule a cool event or trip that involves hunting, fishing, or outdoor activities I […]

From my dimly-lit perspective, there are few hunting scenes finer than a lovesick turkey strutting and gobbling within ten yards of my shotgun barrel. Down here in balmy Texas they’ll often start their spring strut in early February. And depending on range conditions, weather, and the number of serviceable hens; they may stay haired-up well […]

Rainbow goodness: American Angler magazine Hey Folks – Another year is winding down and I’d like to thank all of the companies that license my stock images and hire me to go to cool places and frame scenes and punch buttons. 2011 has been a good year and I’m hoping that our collective climb from the […]

Oh my golly…it’s 2011. How did that happen? As it has been for the past umpteen years, the Texas Panhandle was the scene of my last hunt and photo shoot of the year. We found manageable weather and scads of birds up in the flat country and I was able to fire quite a few […]

Instead of showing you some cool new stuff that I shot in November (which I don’t have, because I was playing hooky in a deer blind) I’m now going to shift gears and thank the folks that have allowed me to perpetuate my twenty-five-year existence without cubicles, neckties, or shiny shoes. So, without further adieu, […]

In this frenetic and oddly connected world in which we live, it’s always nice to have an opportunity to actually shake hands and spend quality time with folks that you’ve otherwise known only through email, Facebook, text messages, and the intertubes. As many of you know, for the past year I’ve been contributing photos and […]

Folks who know me will attest that quail hunting is one of several things that I get all yippy about. Unfortunately the 2009-10 Texas bird crop wasn’t much to yip for. After two consecutive blistering summers there were scant few coveys and lots of bird dogs and hunters riding the bench. I actually went the […]

Opening Day I had big plans in September to spend quite a bit of time in the field with doves, dogs and camera gear. In Texas, dove season typically brings a change in the weather, and this year we were needing one in a big way. After months of parched pastures, dusty roads, dry tanks, […]

Key West This was our seventeenth year (parents, siblings, kids, et al) with the same dates, same guides, and undoubtedly some of the same tarpon. In some years we’ve hit it perfectly (late May/early June) and in other years the planets were mis-aligned. We had some goofy west winds and poor visibility that hindered a […]